Chapter Summaries

Yotsuba Mahiro rescued Kisara Tendo from a restaurant and asked to stay with her after arriving in Tokyo. At Kisara’s newly opened civil security agency, she offered him lodging in exchange for joining her as an employee, and he asked why she had chosen him.

• Mahiro carried Kisara away from the restaurant using a strange trick, and she asked whether he was a survivor of the New Humanity Creation Plan.
• Mahiro revealed that he knew Kisara’s identity and asked to stay at her home; she told him to call her Kisara and took him to her agency.
• Mahiro saw that Kisara had rented a floor in a building surrounded by questionable businesses, while she explained that she had spent her savings establishing the agency.
• Kisara asked whether Mahiro was a civil security officer, and he said he was not.
• Kisara offered Mahiro a place to live if he joined the Tendo Civil Security Agency, and Mahiro asked why she had chosen him.

Yotsuba Mahiro joined Kisara Tendo’s Civil Security Agency and discovered that his ring could transform objects into gold, though he could not understand how its magic worked. The next morning, Satomi Rentaro arrived and found Mahiro answering the agency’s door, leaving him confused and wary.

• Kisara hired Mahiro despite his lack of household registration and arranged for him to spar with her the next day.
• Mahiro examined the ring’s abilities, including travel, storage, and material transformation, and turned a teacup and other furnishings into gold.
• Mahiro spent the night experimenting with material transformation but made little progress in understanding its principles.
• Satomi Rentaro arrived at the agency, and Mahiro opened the door, prompting Rentaro to reach toward his holster in suspicion.
• Rentaro wondered whether Kisara had hired Mahiro as a host, since he could not see how she had afforded someone so handsome.

Yotsuba Mahiro joined Kisara Tendo’s civil security office and revealed that his eyes could see hidden truths, including Satomi Rentaro’s mechanical implants and Kisara’s illness. Kisara arranged a strength test between Mahiro and Rentaro, whose fight began with Mahiro effortlessly dodging his attacks.

• Kisara Tendo awoke to find the office coffee table and its contents transformed into gold, then hurried back to her bedroom when Mahiro warned her about her slipping pajamas.
• Kisara scolded Rentaro for ignoring her call the previous day and introduced him to Yotsuba Mahiro as his new colleague.
• Kisara took Mahiro and Rentaro to her dojo for an initiation strength test, where Mahiro identified Rentaro’s mechanical limbs and eye and revealed Kisara’s health condition.
• Rentaro attacked Mahiro, who dodged without moving his feet and challenged him for holding back.
• Rentaro apologized and launched a barrage of attacks, while Mahiro found his movements slow.

Yotsuba Mahiro defeated Satomi Rentaro by copying his Tendo combat technique, then joined the Tendo Civil Security Agency and settled into life in Tokyo. While walking in the rain, Mahiro found an injured Cursed Child hiding in a trash can and approached her.

• Mahiro easily blocked Rentaro's attacks, copied Black Heavenly Wind, and knocked him down with a stronger version of the move.
• Mahiro told Rentaro and Kisara Tendo that his eyes let him instantly learn any technique he saw, intriguing Kisara.
• After joining the agency, Mahiro arranged his household registration, bought an apartment, and learned more about the Tokyo Area and its politics.
• Mahiro reflected on Seitenshi's efforts to protect Cursed Children as he walked through the rain.
• Mahiro found a young, bruised Cursed Child with a bleeding knife wound hiding in a flooded trash can and approached her.

Mahiro rescued a badly injured Cursed Child girl from a garbage bin, healed her with his CAD, and brought her home to feed and shelter her. After briefly leaving to buy supplies, he returned to find her still hiding in a corner, frightened and confused about why he had taken her in.

• The girl lay battered and starving in a garbage bin, believing her resilience would keep her alive despite wishing she could die.
• Mahiro found the girl, used his CAD to restore her wounds, and carried her back to his apartment despite her fear and protests.
• Mahiro gave the girl a towel and left her alone while he went to buy food and daily necessities.
• President Kisara called Mahiro and told him to take the civilian police license exam at the IISO Tokyo Branch the next day.
• Mahiro returned home and found the girl still curled up in a dark corner, wary and confused by his kindness.

Yotsuba Mahiro tried to earn the frightened girl's trust by cooking for her and insisting she was human, not a Gastrea. The girl finally approached the food, and the chapter ended with her eating rice for the first time in a long while.

• Yotsuba Mahiro tried talking to the silent girl while preparing a meal, but she remained wary of him.
• The girl smelled Mahiro's food and asked whether she could eat, then offered to endure abuse or experiments in exchange for it.
• Mahiro rejected the girl's belief that she was a Gastrea and reassured her that she was human.
• Mahiro explained that he helped her out of compassion, and the girl cautiously left her corner.
• Mahiro stopped the girl from eating with dirty hands, washed them, and then let her approach the meal.
• The girl eagerly stuffed rice into her mouth and marveled at its taste.

After rescuing and feeding Mibu Asaka, Mahiro offered her a place to stay, and she agreed to help around his home. The next day, he went with Kisara to the IISO branch for his Civil Security license exam, where Rentaro revealed that the organization had found him a suitable Initiator.

• Mahiro fed the starving Mibu Asaka, who thanked him and feared he would punish or kill her afterward.
• Mahiro asked Mibu Asaka to stay and help clean in exchange for food and lodging, and she agreed.
• Mahiro took Mibu Asaka to bathe and planned to take her shopping for clothes later.
• The next day, Mahiro arrived late at the IISO Tokyo branch, where Kisara and Rentaro were waiting for him.
• Rentaro told Mahiro that the IISO had found him a suitable Initiator, while Kisara explained that Initiators had become scarce.

Yotsuba Mahiro completed his Civil Security examination and received an exceptionally high IP ranking, while his unexpected recognition of Enju Aihara calmed her before Rentaro took her away. In the lobby, Miori Shiba approached Mahiro to provoke Kisara and asked about his rank, but Mahiro declined to answer and left.

• Kisara suggested that Mahiro adopt Mibu as his Initiator so she could receive regular inhibitor injections, but Mahiro said he would think about it.
• Mahiro recognized Number 328 as Enju Aihara, and hearing him say her name calmed her before Rentaro took her as his Initiator.
• Mahiro breezed through the Civil Security assessment and received an IP ranking of 8,360th place.
• Miori Shiba approached Mahiro, insulted Kisara, and asked him to reveal his ranking.
• Mahiro politely declined Miori's request and said he had to leave.

Miori Shiba tried to recruit Yotsuba Mahiro after learning his ranking, provoking Kisara Tendo into a fight that ended without a winner. Mahiro returned home to Mibu Asaka, who welcomed him while wearing his shirt.

• Miori Shiba learned that Yotsuba Mahiro had an eight-thousand-range ranking and offered him a high-paying job and free equipment at Shiba Heavy Industries.
• Mahiro politely declined Miori Shiba's offer, while Kisara Tendo grew furious at her insults and attempt to poach him.
• Kisara Tendo and Miori Shiba fought in the hall, but neither gained a decisive victory.
• Mahiro left the IISO branch and returned home, reflecting that it felt good to know someone was waiting for him.
• Mibu Asaka welcomed Mahiro at the door, wearing his white shirt after he had thrown away her tattered clothes.

Mahiro comforted Mibu Asaka and gave her a home, helping her begin a new life as his little sister. A year later, the Tendo Agency was thriving amid a surge in Gastrea incidents, while Mahiro and Kisara discussed their partners and the latest commission.

• Mahiro told Mibu Asaka to call him Brother and assured her that his home was hers too.
• Mibu Asaka broke down in tears and accepted Mahiro's embrace and protection.
• A year later, Mahiro visited the busy Tendo Agency, where Mibu Asaka served him tea and Kisara said Rentaro had taken a commission with Enju.
• Kisara reported that the agency had seen ten Gastrea incidents that month, including the latest in a suburban private residence.
• Kisara remarked that Enju depended more on Mahiro than on Rentaro, and Mibu Asaka reacted with resentment when Kisara suggested she could have been her secretary.

Yotsuba Mahiro helped the Tendo Civil Security Agency recover payment for Rentaro’s job, then learned that Rentaro and Enju had encountered a masked murderer at a crime scene. The chapter left Mahiro and the others investigating a possible connection between the murderer and a series of spider-factor Gastrea incidents.

• Mibu Asaka reaffirmed her devotion to Mahiro, who teased her about their childhood memories.
• Kisara confronted Rentaro after he once again failed to collect payment, and Mahiro made Inspector Tadajima pay what the agency was owed.
• Rentaro revealed that Kikima Atsuro had once been Kisara’s fiancé, while Mahiro admitted he had only invoked Kikima’s name as a bluff.
• Enju and Rentaro explained that the Gastrea they fought was an infected victim with the spider factor, like other recent cases.
• Rentaro described meeting a tall, masked man in a burgundy tailcoat who called himself destined to destroy the world.

Mahiro visited Sumire Muroto at the hospital morgue to collect an upgraded inhibitor and a genetic enhancement drug. After learning the drug still carried risks, he asked her to improve it, but Sumire argued that his ability to restore and overwrite information made its success rate irrelevant.

• Mahiro recalled Rentaro's account of a terrifyingly strong person and considered the time he needed for his plans and ring to charge.
• Mahiro took little Enju and little Asaka to the hospital morgue to meet Sumire Muroto, who startled them with a corpse and a prank.
• Sumire gave Mahiro a green genetic enhancement drug and a yellow inhibitor that could halt erosion-rate growth for one month.
• Sumire explained that the enhancement drug strengthened the body and granted Gastrea-like regeneration, but its success rate was 96.32% and its risks were not fully eliminated.
• Mahiro rejected the drug and asked Sumire to improve its success rate and regenerative ability for use in another world.
• Sumire told Mahiro that his power could restore him even from fatal injuries or genetic alteration, making any nonzero success rate equivalent to certainty for him.

Yotsuba Mahiro negotiated with Sumire Muroto over experiments and brought Mibu Asaka along to a Ministry of Defense meeting. There, a hostile Civil Security officer confronted them, but Mahiro effortlessly made him back down and roll away.

• Sumire Muroto demanded Yotsuba Mahiro's semen as payment for helping with his research, and Mahiro hurriedly left with Little Asaka and Little Enju.
• After Kisara summoned him to the Ministry of Defense, Mahiro agreed to bring Mibu Asaka, who insisted on serving as his sword.
• Mahiro and Mibu Asaka arrived at a crowded meeting where Civil Security officers and Initiators had gathered.
• Shogen Ikuma mocked Mahiro and threatened him, prompting Mibu Asaka to defend her master.
• Mahiro told Shogen Ikuma to get lost, and Shogen obeyed before setting aside his weapon and rolling away.

At the commission meeting, Hiruko Kagetane and his Initiator, Hiruko Kohina, attacked and demanded the Seven Stars' Legacy. Mahiro accepted Seitenshi's offer to stop him, then used Nihility to break Kagetane down completely, leaving the meeting stunned.

• Mahiro used Evil Eye to make Shogen Ikuma obey, then gave candy to Senju Kayo and Mibu Asaka while the commission meeting began.
• Hiruko Kagetane interrupted the meeting, introduced his daughter Hiruko Kohina, and declared himself Seitenshi's enemy while bringing up the Seven Stars' Legacy.
• Kagetane's Imaginary Gimmick repelled gunfire and reflected bullets, wounding Civil Security officers as Mahiro protected Kisara Tendo and Asaka.
• Mahiro agreed to Seitenshi's offer of one hundred million to take down Kagetane, with Kohina and subsequent drops as his reward.
• Mahiro fired his weapon and activated Nihility, reducing Kagetane's biological body to elements and leaving only his Varanium mechanical parts.

Yotsuba Mahiro killed Hiruko Kagetane, defeated the resulting confrontation with Tendo Kikunojo, and erased Hiruko Kohina’s memories of her father. After receiving his share of the commission, Mahiro headed into Tokyo’s Outer District.

• Mibu Asaka blocked Hiruko Kohina’s attack on Yotsuba Mahiro and defeated her in a sword fight.
• Tendo Kikunojo confronted Mahiro over Hiruko Kagetane’s death, while Kisara defended Mahiro and threatened the Tendo Family.
• Seitenshi mediated, and the Holy Residence agreed to pay the reward for Kagetane’s elimination while continuing the search for the Seven Stars Relic Case.
• Mahiro brought the bound Kohina home and used his mental powers to erase all her memories of Hiruko Kagetane.
• Mahiro learned from Kohina’s memories that Kagetane had created and brutally trained her, then received ten million from Kisara as his share of the commission.
• Mahiro drove away from the city toward the Outer District.

Yotsuba Mahiro returned to District 39, where he had built a refuge for the Cursed Children, and learned that Miori Shiba had finished installing wind power. After leaving the refuge, he discovered two police officers abusing a Cursed Child, but their first shot inexplicably missed her.

• Yotsuba Mahiro arrived at District 39 and was welcomed by the Cursed Children he had gathered there.
• Miori Shiba told Yotsuba Mahiro that the wind turbines and transformer equipment were ready, and he agreed to pay ten million yen for the turbines.
• Miori Shiba asked about his plans for the children and mentioned Noah's Ark, while Yotsuba Mahiro described District 39 as their Arcadia.
• Yotsuba Mahiro left the refuge and found two police officers dragging a Cursed Child into an abandoned building.
• The officers handcuffed the girl to a railing and prepared to shoot her, but the first officer's shot left her unharmed.

Yotsuba Mahiro rescued a red-eyed girl from two abusive officers and invited her to join Arcadia, then visited the badly injured Haki Rentaro and learned that a new enhanced soldier had defeated him. The chapter ended with Sumire Muroto arriving as Mahiro asked whether she knew anything about Rentaro’s attacker.

• Yotsuba Mahiro killed two officers who had been tormenting a red-eyed girl and invited her to join Arcadia in District Thirty-Nine.
• Yotsuba Mahiro went to the hospital after hearing that Satomi had been hurt and found Haki Rentaro and Kisara Tendo recovering there.
• Kisara Tendo murmured in her sleep about revenge against Tendo and the deaths of her parents while holding Mahiro’s hand.
• Haki Rentaro woke up and told Mahiro that a newly created enhanced soldier called Dark Stalker, whose real name was Mitsugi Yuuga, had beaten him.
• Sumire Muroto arrived, and Mahiro asked her whether she knew anything about Rentaro’s attacker.

Yotsuba Mahiro learned that Albrecht Grunewald, the head of the Four Sages, may be behind the threat to Tokyo Area and accepted Seitenshi’s mission to recover the Seven Stars’ Legacy. As Mahiro prepared to leave, Sumire Muroto gave him weapons and a syringe to suppress Gastrea infection, while Kisara urged him to return alive.

• Sumire Muroto identified Albrecht Grunewald as the mechanization surgeon responsible for Hiruko Kagetane and warned that he could bring about a Great Extinction.
• Seitenshi told Mahiro that Mitsugi Yuuga had taken the Seven Stars’ Legacy, a catalyst capable of summoning a Stage Five Gastrea, and asked him to recover it for one billion.
• Mahiro accepted Seitenshi’s request and reassured Kisara that he would win and come back alive.
• Sumire gave Mahiro Varanium weapons prepared by Miori Shiba and a syringe that could suppress the Gastrea Virus, recognizing that he intended to collect Scorpio’s blood.
• Mahiro left the hospital to face the crisis as the narration described the power and history of Stage Five Gastrea.

Yotsuba Mahiro entered the unexplored forest beyond the Monolith, fought through a horde of Gastrea, and encountered the injured Senju Kayo. After treating her wounds at an abandoned fortress, he learned she had been separated from Shogen Ikuma, while Kayo questioned why Mahiro had come on the dangerous mission without Asaka.

• Yotsuba Mahiro landed in the forest beyond the Monolith and defeated the Gastrea surrounding him with ice and psion attacks.
• Senju Kayo held Mahiro at gunpoint, but he disarmed her and stopped when he recognized her.
• Senju Kayo led Mahiro to an abandoned defensive position, where he disinfected and bandaged her wound as they shared coffee.
• Senju Kayo explained that she had been separated from Shogen Ikuma after they fell into a Gastrea trap.
• Senju Kayo asked about Mahiro's Initiator, and Mahiro said he had left Asaka behind because he worked alone.
• Senju Kayo fell silent and remarked that rumors about Mahiro could not be trusted.

Senju Kayo and Yotsuba Mahiro learned that Shogen Ikuma’s group had found Mitsugi Yuuga and set out for the harbor, where a mysterious attacker was slaughtering them. They reached the battlefield and found Ikuma mortally wounded, still searching for the sword embedded in his back, just as a black shadow descended.

• Senju Kayo told Yotsuba Mahiro that she admired his kindness toward Cursed Children, then received Shogen Ikuma’s radio message that his group had found Mitsugi Yuuga.
• Kayo and Mahiro left the fortress and headed toward the harbor, where a mysterious force was killing Promoters and Initiators.
• Kayo tried to stop a charging Gastrea, but Mahiro disintegrated it and continued toward the harbor with her.
• Mahiro scavenged weapons from the battlefield as they approached the slaughtered group.
• Kayo recognized the blinded, dying Shogen Ikuma, who staggered toward them asking for his sword, which was embedded in his back.
• A black shadow descended as Kayo watched Ikuma.